Octahedral spherical hohlraum and its laser arrangement for inertial fusion

A recent publication [K. Lan et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 010704 (2014)] proposed a spherical hohlraum with six laser entrance holes of octahedral symmetry at a specific hohlraum-to-capsule radius ratio of 5.14 for inertial fusion study, which has robust high symmetry during the capsule implosion and s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics of plasmas 2014-05, Vol.21 (5)
Hauptverfasser: Lan, Ke, He, Xian-Tu, Liu, Jie, Zheng, Wudi, Lai, Dongxian
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Zusammenfassung:A recent publication [K. Lan et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 010704 (2014)] proposed a spherical hohlraum with six laser entrance holes of octahedral symmetry at a specific hohlraum-to-capsule radius ratio of 5.14 for inertial fusion study, which has robust high symmetry during the capsule implosion and superiority on low backscatter without supplementary technology. This paper extends the previous one by studying the laser arrangement and constraints of octahedral hohlraum in detail. As a result, it has serious beam crossing at θL≤45°, and θL=50° to 60° is proposed as the optimum candidate range for the golden octahedral hohlraum, here θL is the opening angle that the laser quad beam makes with the Laser Entrance Hole (LEH) normal direction. In addition, the design of the LEH azimuthal angle should avoid laser spot overlapping on hohlraum wall and laser beam transferring outside hohlraum from a neighbor LEH. The octahedral hohlraums are flexible and can be applicable to diverse inertial fusion drive approaches. This paper also applies the octahedral hohlraum to the recent proposed hybrid indirect-direct drive approach.
ISSN:1070-664X
1089-7674
DOI:10.1063/1.4878835